Connected & Sustainable Urban Mobility
The consequences of both current pace of urbanization and extensive use of various mobility systems require new solutions and concepts to make up for a viable future in emerging countries. Collaborate with Bosch to transform the mobility sector and solve one of the most relevant challenges of our time to ensure a sustainable urban development around the globe.
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🏆 Prize EUR 3,000 per Challenge + funding programs with Bosch, BMZ digilab and Make-IT Alliance + joint publication | For more see Tab “Rewards”
🕑 Deadline Feb 13, 2022, 10:58 PM🌎 Scope Open to participants from all over the world
Who can participate?
The Use Case is calling students, researchers, professionals involved in digital solutions for eco-agriculture and startups to innovate African agriculture.
Potential Impact
Urban mobility plays an increasingly critical role in the socio-economic transformation towards a sustainable future. Digital innovations can be a key catalyst for enabling the transition providing solutions that enable sustainable modes of travelling, increased awareness and behavioural changes towards sustainable development models.
Knowledge Base
Urban Mobility Framework: You can read into the topic in a Report from McKinsey
Evaluation Criteria
1. political relevance (strategic relevance)
- Does digital innovation contribute to solving a developmentally important core problem for target groups, differentiated by vulnerable groups or disadvantaged groups (gender, minorities), or to a development bottleneck of a partner country?
- Does innovation make a clearly defined contribution to the SDGs (which ones?)
2. scalability (probability of success)
Impact
- Are the impact goals defined and is it explained how they will be achieved (e.g., Theory of Change)?
- Has digital innovation already been successfully piloted and implemented? Is there evidence that the intended impact was achieved?
- How high is the degree of goal achievement (effectiveness, quality of goal achievement) compared to other options? (Ratio result/target)
- What are the economic, social, and environmental risks associated with innovation (especially with regard to the Safeguards+Gender areas of the environment, climate, human rights, conflict, and gender)?
Scaling intention
- Are initial scaling objectives and further scaling options coherently presented?
- Is digital innovation sufficiently independent of context-specific determinants and local system requirements?
Team
- Is digital innovation backed by a diverse team with a clear vision characterized by leadership and entrepreneurial thinking?
- Does the team have clear ambitions to scale their digital innovation?
- Target group centricity
- Is there broad knowledge of the target audience and stakeholder needs?
- Have elements of digital innovation been tested and developed together with the target group?
- Are vulnerable target groups (esp. women) or is the partner country able and willing to use the innovation in the long term (long-term demand)?
Sustainability
- What is the benefit or added value of digital innovation for target groups or the partner country?
- Is there a comprehensible business model that ensures sustainable financing of the digital solution?